I dont know where you live, but in the EU its really different.
Sure it may be hard to prove that a person is the author of something, thats another point.
But I never heard such a crap, that you have to register works to copyright them.
In the internet applies the same law than offline.
But I stop this discussion here, because I see no sense.
I have to do with this stuff since years, believe it or not.
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I am sorry but i have to agree with DaSnakke...i don't know how or where you worked with this, but all i can say is that i found myself one day with some of my creations from
www.trainzro.com published on a free weebly.com website. I sent an email to Weebly, telling them that those are my objects published there with no right...and guess what...the guys from Weebly do not have Trainz installed to read the license in the config file and they couldn't do ***t because my work is not registered. I do not have documents to state that those items are mine. I can very well "steal" them from some other place, publish them under my name and then pretend to be mine, do the guys from Weebly know this? Yes they can help me but only if i can prove somehow that i am the author.
Indeed, in the US, Europe and Australia, you automatically have ownership and grantable rights to anything you create (3D models included). But, if you want to have it protected legally in the courts, (that is to say in order to litigate if you don't approve of an unauthorized use), you must register the work with some copyright office. And let's be real, nobody will pay to register some houses or grass or trees, and nobody will ever get so p****d off to sue someone who posts a Trainz object created by him/her in a dependencies pack. It is only a matter of common sense, as said before, not to modifiy that object and pretend to be yours, publish it as a standalone object on your website, or make a profit from it. But otherwise i do not see a problem, in fact i suppose that any author of an object will be more than happy if his/her object/s are used, and especially used in a route like this one. Why has he/she created the object if not for public use? If you don't want your object to be used then don't publish it and keep it for yourself.
And one more thing, the MSTS routes all come complete, sometimes in an .exe files that contain all the objects. Does anyone gets annoyed? I never heard of trials or fines for using someone elses objects in a depenedencies pack...And to be honest, i prefer that a route creator sticks to his "job" of creating routes, than searching around the web for object authors to ask for their permission. I am sure all of you prefer to download all objects in one pack, and not wait for hours on DLS or search for days on i don't know what websites (sometimes having the surprise that some websites do not exist anymore or files have expired), but some are hypocrites and they do not admit it.
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Great route zieba111 keep up the good work.
) must know about your creation, thus your creation must be registered somewhere. And believe me, unless you don't register your work, it's not going to register itself a.k.a. nobody from the legal dept. is going to search the internet and randomly register original creations.
I made it in TS2010, build 49933. My friend drstrach in TS12 has the same problem.
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